The conference covers a wide range of subjects in literary, cultural, and language studies, and welcomes presentations dealing with new interdisciplinary perspectives on these fields, contemporary social and cultural issues, and other areas of investigation. Topics include (but are not limited to):

English and Comparative Literature:

• Literary Theory 

• Philosophy 

• Historiography 

• British, American, Turkish and European Literatures

• World Literatures in translation…  

Interdisciplinary Studies: 

• Literature in relation to

• Visual Arts 

• Performance Arts

• Film and Media 

• Music 

• Science 

• Social and Political Theory 

• Issues in Digital Humanities …

Cultural and Media Studies:

• Demographic change and identities

• Globalization and social coherence 

• Belief systems and politics 

• Contemporary discussions on gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, diaspora, nationalism

• Media representations and regulation 

• Emerging technologies and ethical issues 

• Climate issues and the media…

Translation Studies:

• Literary Translation Studies

• Narrative approaches to translation

• Stylistic approaches to translation (including approaches from Cognitive Poetics)

• Ecocritical approaches to translation 

• Self-translation 

• Translation and Ideology 

• Translation and Gender…

English Language Teaching and Education:

• Teaching critical thinking 

• Neuromyths in ELT and Education 

• Cognitive science and language learning

• Teaching language through culture

• Educational issues in Neurolinguistics and Sociolinguistics…